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[wool-fish] 
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barbarous
[bahr-ber-uhs]
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, savage |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, barbarian, barbaric, brutal, brutish, coarse, cruel, ferocious, heartless, ignorant, inhuman, inhumane, monstrous, primitive, rough, rude, ruthless, sadistic, truculent, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, unsophisticated, vicious, vulgar, wicked, wild, wolfish |
| Notes: | barbaric pertains to crudeness and uncivility (based on Greek barbaros 'foreign'); barbarous pertains to cruelty, harshness, and immorality |
| Antonyms: | civilized, cultured, educated, kind, nice, polite, refined, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | gluttonous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | voracious |
| Synonyms: | covetous, devouring, edacious, gorging, gourmandizing, greedy, gross, hoggish, insatiable, never full, omnivorous, piggish, piggy, prodigious, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, sating, starved, starving, unquenchable, wolfish |
| Main Entry: | predatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eating, destroying for sustenance or without conscience |
| Synonyms: | bloodthirsty, carnivorous, depredatory, despoiling, greedy, hungry, hunting, marauding, pillaging, plundering, predacious, predative, preying, rapacious, raptorial, ravaging, ravening, thieving, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish |
| Main Entry: | ravenous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hungry; desirous |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, could eat a horse, covetous, devouring, edacious, empty, famished, ferocious, gluttonous, grasping, greedy, insatiable, insatiate, omnivorous, predatory, rapacious, ravening, starved, starved to death, starving, voracious, wolfish |
| Antonyms: | full, satisfied |
| Main Entry: | savage |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cruel, vicious |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, barbarous, beastly, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, brutal, brutish, cold-blooded, crazed, demoniac, destructive, devilish, diabolical, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, frantic, furious, grim, harsh, heartless, hellish, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, malevolent, malicious, merciless, murderous, pitiless, rabid, raging, rapacious, ravening, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, sadistic, truculent, unrelenting, violent, wolfish |
| Antonyms: | benign, kind, nice |
| Main Entry: | inhuman |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | animal |
| Synonyms: | barbaric, barbarous, bestial, brutal, cannibalistic, cold-blooded, cruel, devilish, diabolical, fell, ferocious, fiendish, fierce, grim, hateful, heartless, implacable, inhumane, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, merciless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, savage, truculent, uncompassionate, unfeeling, unkind, unrelenting, unsympathetic, vicious, wolfish |
| Antonyms: | human |
| Main Entry: | lupine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wolflike |
| Synonyms: | fierce, plant, rapacious, ravenous, wolfish |
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